In this video i will show you How To Apply Cinematic Color Grading To Your Photographs in Photoshop. I want to give this photo a Hollywood style teal-orange tone. I use two solid colour layers, one called shadows which is teal and the other called highlights which is orange to tone the image.

For this, i want the teal to only affect the dark areas of the image. To do that, double click on the layer to get the layer options panel. The important slider here is Underlying Layer. Drag the white triangles to the left and you will see that the teal starts to only affect the shadows. Hold Option or Alt Key clicking on the triangles splits them so you can feather the blending effect.

Do the same for the highlights. This time, however, we want to preserve the highlights so drag the black triangles to the right. Once again, split them to feather the blend.